Before the era of football’s commodified “gentrification” at the end of the twentieth century, the intellectual world almost refused to speak about the sport. In…
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The economics of football do not only concern its commercialisation; it is the way one perceives and analyses it as a phenomenon, setting aside the…
Picture a scene: a crowd of people, of various ages, visibly drawn from different classes, composed of different genders, nationalities, and perhaps with differing levels…
The northern hemisphere is deep in summer. Football has been on hold for months. The leagues and European competitions of the past season feel like…
There is a reason why football is not merely a popular sport, but something far broader than that definition suggests. The analysis of tactics and…
In every field of human activity and inquiry, there are certain special reference points — human creations that stand out as exceptional within their broader…
In 1944, Greece was liberated from the Nazi yoke by the EAM and its armed wing, ELAS. On the 12th of October 1944, the last…